From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 20:06:27 UTC
>From: Ed Campion <Edward.S.Campion_at_nasa.gov>
>Reply-To: Ed Campion <Edward.S.Campion_at_nasa.gov>
>To: gsfc_press_releases_at_listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov
>Subject: GSFC Release: CEREMONY AND SYMPOSIUM MARK GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF
>RADIO ASTRONOMY
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:03:30 -0400
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>Rachel Weintraub September 26, 2005
>Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
>(Phone: 301-286-0918
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>RELEASE: 05-41
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>CEREMONY AND SYMPOSIUM MARK GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF RADIO ASTRONOMY
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>Fifty years ago, most Americans had their radios tuned to listen to the
>voices of Frank Sinatra or Bill Haley & His Comets. But in a Maryland
>field, Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin of the Carnegie Institution were
>listening to quite a different "voice" - that of the planet Jupiter.
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>Their discovery, made at an observatory near Seneca, Md., was the first
>radio emission detected from another planet. The finding was not only big
>news at the time, it also changed the course of all future planetary
>science efforts.
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>To mark the golden anniversary of Burke and Franklin's achievement, the
>Carnegie Institution and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will hold a
>ceremony and symposium open to the public this coming Thursday, Sept. 29,
>2005.
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>The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. and participants will re-live history as
>researchers demonstrate a receiver and antenna system capable of picking up
>Jupiter's "voice" at the intersection of River Road and MD 112 in Seneca,
>Md. Two hours later, Dr. Burke and others will reflect on the early days of
>radio astronomy, breakthroughs during the Voyager mission, and the latest
>efforts to detect radio emissions from planets beyond our solar system. The
>talks will take place at the Carnegie Institution's Department of
>Terrestrial Magnetism, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, D.C. Later
>in the evening, astronomer Alycia Weinberger will discuss "Our Solar System
>and Others Not Like It," at the Carnegie Science Evening at 6:45 p.m. in
>the downtown Carnegie headquarters located at 16th and P Sts., NW.
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>Media who wish to attend either the ceremony or the symposiums should
>contact Michelle Brooks for access and accreditation. Ms. Brooks can be
>reached at (202) 478-8830 or via e-mail at brooks_at_dtm.ciw.edu.
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>For more information, please visit:
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><http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/content/view/214/208/>http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/content/view/214/208/
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